Previous Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winners

1976 Parthian Shot by Loyd Little (Viking)

1977 Speedboat by Renata Adler (Random House)

1978 A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien (Norton)

1979 Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch (Knopf)

1980 Mom Kills Kids and Self by Alan Saperstein (FSG)

1981 Household Words by Joan Silber

1982 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)

1983 Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row)

1984 During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase (Harper & Row)

1985 Dreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys (Viking)

1986 Lady’s Time by Alan V. Hewat (Harper & Row)

1987 Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown (Seymour Lawrence/Dutton)

1988 Imagining Argentina by Lawerence Thornton (Doubleday)

1989 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (Ticknor & Fields)

1990 The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard (FSG)

1991 Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper (University of Georgia)

1992 Wartime Lies by Louis Begley (Knopf)

1993 Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones (Morrow)

1994 The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb (University of New Mexico)

1995 The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Putnam)

1996 Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)

1997 Ocean of Words by Ha Jin (Zoland)

1998 A Private State by Charlotte Bacon (University of Massachusetts)

1999 Homestead by Rosina Lipini (Delphinium)

Finalists: Michael Byers (The Coast of Good Intentions) and C.S. Godshalk (Kalimantaan)
Runners-up: Lan Samantha Chang (Hunger) and Michael Knight (Dogfight & Other Stories)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin)

2001 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma (FSG)

Finalists: Mohsin Hamid (Moth Smoke) and Tom Paine (Scar Vegas and other Stories)
Runners-up: Myla Goldberg (Bee Season) and Elissa Schappell (Use Me)

2002 Mary and O’Neil by Justin Cronin (Dial)

Finalists: Peter Orner (Esther Stories) and Manil Suri (The Death of Vishnu)
Runners-up: Carolyn Cooke (The Bostons) and Micheline Aharonian Marcom (Three Apples Fell From Heaven)

2003 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by George Brownstein (Norton)

Finalists: Chriusite Hodgen (A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw) and Gabe Hudson (Dear Mr. President)
Runners-up: Jonathan Tel (Arafat's Elephant) and Julia Whitty (A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga)

2004 Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh (Morrow)

Finalists: Murad Kalam (Night Journey) and Z.Z. Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere)
Runners-up: Suki Kim (The Interpreters) and Ellen Ullman (The Bug)

2005 Graceland by Chris Abani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists: Laurie Lynn Drummond (Anything You Say Can and Will be Used Against You) and Samina Ali (Madras on Rainy Days)
Runners-up: Jerome Richard (The Kiss of the Prison Dancer) and Hannah Tinti (Animal Crackers)

2006 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li (Random House)

Finalists: Daniel Alarcon (War by Candlelight) and Douglas Trevor (The Thin Year in the Fabric of Space)
Runners-up: Jeff Row (The Train to Lo Wu) and Karen Olsson (Waterloo)

2007 Brief Encounters With Che Guevara by Ben Fountain (HarperCollins)

Finalists: Rebecca Johns (Icebergs) and Yvette Christianse (Unconfessed)
Runners-up: Marisha Pessl (The Special Topics in Calamity Physics) and Janna Levin (A Madman Dreams of Turnning Machines)

2008 Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown)

Ravi Howard (Like Trees Walking) and Rebecca Curtis (Twenty Grand)
Runners-up: Margot Singer (The Pale of Settlement) and Gary Schanbacher (Migration Patterns)

2009 A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie (Norton)

Finalists: Ed Park (Personal Days) and Sana Krasikov (One More Year)
Runners-up: Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis) and Matthew Quick (The Silver Linings Playbook)

2010 A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka (Houghton Mifflin)

Finalists: C.E. Morgan (All the Living) and Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone)
Runners-up: Mary Beth Keane (The Walking People) and Lydia Peelle (Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing)